Is it possible to use proxy only when a specific profile is active in Maven?

Question

I would like to use proxy only when a specific profile is active. To accomplish this, my guess is to parameterize the property of

Answer 1

You could try the following approach:

    
        
            httpproxy
            ${activate.proxy}
            http
            some.host
            8080
            localhost|127.0.0.1
        
    

    
        
            proxy-on
            
                true
            
        

        
            proxy-off
            
                false
            
        
    

    
        proxy-off
    

So by default the proxy-off profile would be active, which would set activate.proxy to false and as such active of proxy to false.

Then executing with:

mvn clean install -Pproxy-on

Would activate the proxy-on profile and the whole chain should result to true for active.